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- 14 Oct 2010
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Jobs Bill Misses Mark
background helps bring Lerner’s view into focus. Politicians love to talk about how small businesses are the jobs engine of the economy. So passing a bill with small business loan guarantees and tax... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
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Can politicians really bring jobs "back" to the U.S.?
- 31 Oct 2023
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
changed rapidly. “When I decided to take on that role, the world looked very different than it did later that spring,” recalls Diagne. “I had no idea that job would turn into pandemic response and economic recovery.” Worldwide, crisis... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
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Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc
the Wall Street Journal. Steve Jobs said that VisiCalc “propelled the Apple II to the success it achieved more than any other single event.” It also was the force behind the later success of Microsoft in business computing. But VisiCalc’s... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
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Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
Founding Chairman, Egon Zehnder International, Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education University of Zurich, 1949 A.B., Classics University of Zurich, 1953 Ph.D., Law (including one year at the University of Paris) Other View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
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End Game
Yvon knew what it meant at the time,” Conn admits. Ultimately, the founder tasked a small group of board members with the job of figuring that out. Given the name Project Chacabuco, after a conservation area in Chile, the group was... View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
In March 2020, Sijh Diagne (MBA 2017) left his job as an investment banker in New York to move back to his native Senegal as an advisor to the minister of economy, planning, and cooperation. The position would entail developing the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2015
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The End of Cows?
When Senior Lecturer José B. Alvarez was the CEO of Stop & Shop, he heard a recurring complaint from customers: The meat quality, they said, seemed to vary by the day. That’s the nature of meat: Nobody in the supply chain can guarantee... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
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Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
is between companies that serve traditional banking needs and those catering to clients with more complicated financial lives. A crucial delineation," he says, "may be between those for whom federal deposit insurance is important - that is, those who need to know that... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 19 Oct 2012
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Past and Present
deter him from a path to leadership. “If there is one thing that I pride myself on actually understanding today, it is organizational behavior. My low grade in OB motivated me to really figure it out, because in my job today, it is far... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
sister. MY FIRST JOB was as a copyboy in the classified ad department. Our brand-new technology was 60 women on IBM Selectric typewriters. I would go around every few minutes to pick up their copy and take it to the composing room to be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
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School of Hard Knocks
because of my skin color. Recess was guaranteed torture. It started on my first day of school, when the tribal leader's son punched me in the face. I made the mistake of defending myself and fighting back and actually "won" that fight. No... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
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Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
leaders in society, and the ed-ucational priorities that are behind the most ambitious fundraising effort ever undertaken by HBS. Looking back on the past year, the School — like other institutions around the world — faced a number of challenges, including the economic... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
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Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
President & Chief Executive Officer Starbucks Coffee Company Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education University of Washington, 1965 B.A., Finance, Economics, Accounting, and Statistics Other Jobs Touche Ross & Co.,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
whiffed management assignment, an unceremonious firing, or a failed marriage. Whatever the circumstances, one point becomes clear: The only real failure is not learning from one. Catch those stones While I have had “whoopsies” at jobs as... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 10 Aug 2017
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Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
you laugh at. And if you can do that, I guarantee you'll have a great life. Hi, my name is Joseph Meyer. Section E, 2007. My wife and I have four kids. One of things that I've thought about a lot when it comes to happiness is the... View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
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Support System
a B2B company that supplied bulk shea butter to brands and distributors. Akuete initially started down a different career path, having taken a job at JPMorgan Chase after business school. But when her mother became ill in 2015, Akuete... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jan 2003
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Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
marketing group, hammering out goals and determining resources, work assignments, measures of success, and even rewards and recognition for a job well done. "It is the only method that works if you want to move in parallel paths and not... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
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The Joy of Work
important for company leaders to see themselves as facilitators of progress, as being there to serve the people who are in the trenches. If they do a good job of planning and organizing projects, and keeping in touch with how things are... View Details